Dawdle vs Hump - What's the difference?
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To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
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* Johnson
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
A mound of earth.
A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
A speed hump.
(rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
(British, slang) A bad mood.
(slang) A painfully boorish person.
To bend something into a hump.
(slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
(slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
(intransitive) To dry-hump.
(slang) To have sex with.
(slang) To have sex.
Dawdle is a related term of hump.
As a verb dawdle
is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.As a noun dawdle
is a dawdler.As a proper noun hump is
the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.dawdle
English
Verb
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- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
See also
* dally, dander, dandle, diddle, loaf, piddle, wander, doodleAnagrams
* English intransitive verbshump
English
Noun
(wikipedia hump) (en noun)- get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
- That guy is such a hump !
